The idea here is that instead of specifying consistency up-front (weak, eventual, strong, etc), sometimes users care more about availability than consistency, so the system lets users say "I want a response in 100ms, gimme the best consistency you have in that time".
There's also a complicated system of a more explicit tradeoff between consistency and availability in the paper, which I think is super interesting because it makes the tradeoff between the two apparent and easily changeable.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 16.1 ms ] threadThere's also a complicated system of a more explicit tradeoff between consistency and availability in the paper, which I think is super interesting because it makes the tradeoff between the two apparent and easily changeable.